tock Tracking: LoRa Support

Tock needs LoRa support, and this issue is a marker that we would like to see support for a stack.

Generally there are two versions:

Implement a full LoRaWAN stack in Tock (in kernel or userspace). #1760 is a start on this.
Use an external chip with a full LoRaWAN stack already, and send it AT commands.

Jan 11 '21 23:01 bradjc

Another LoRa driver is here: #2615

Aug 31 '21 16:08 bradjc

We merged #3360

May 26 '23 22:05 bradjc

I think this is now fully supported with: https://github.com/tock/tock/tree/master/boards/apollo3/lora_things_plus#radiolib

Aug 11 '23 19:08 alistair23

If anyone is interested this is another promising development environment

https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Wio-WM1110_Dev_Kit_Hardware_Overview/

It's the nRF52840, which Tock supports with a LR1110. Unfortunately RadioLib doesn't support the LR1110 yet

Seeed have announced a product based on the development kit as well: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seeed/sensecap-t1000-track-what-you-care-with-no-boundaries

Aug 23 '23 14:08 alistair23

Wow, this board has a lot of features for pretty cheap: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Wio-WM1110-Dev-Kit-p-5677.html

LoRaWAN
GPS
Antennas for LoRa and GPS
WiFi AP Scanning (detects nearby AP MAC addresses for positioning)
nRF52840 (so BLE/Thread)
Temp/Humidity and Accelerometer over I2C
AA battery holder AND a solar panel

Aug 23 '23 16:08 brghena

Wow, this board has a lot of features for pretty cheap: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Wio-WM1110-Dev-Kit-p-5677.html

Wow! Is this the future of Tock boards??

The issue is how to program it. Seems like by default USB is attached to UART (yuck):

We can work with that, but we need some way to install the bootloader the first time.

Aug 23 '23 17:08 bradjc

Also, it doesn't seem to have actual GPS, but it can save GPS info which can be later processed to determine location.

Aug 23 '23 19:08 bradjc